a new star rising

congratulations guys! Well done.

Totally Chuffed!

Glancing through my Facebook news feed today, I was excited to find this:

Dharma Trading featured one of my tutorials!  Being Halloween and all, it's kind of nice when my PAST comes back to haunt me!

The Penultimate Stage

I love that word: "Penultimate".
Like waking up on December 23rd, when you know the Big Day is close:  it's the light at the end of a rather long tunnel.
Funny thing is, though, the first metallic assembly is where the biggest changes happen.
It's where the work starts to become what it wants, not exactly what I thought it would be.

The Right Earrings for a Meteor Shower.

Stumbling around at 4:30 this morning, I grabbed everything I'd need for a hasty Meteor shower date:  Jeans, flip-flips, coffee, wallet, etc. It cost me me almost a minute of fumbling before I realized I had no appropriate earrings.

Harry Potter finale: who's next?

I finally steeled myself to go to the last Harry Potter movie tonight.  I was concerned it was going to be too dark, like the previous ones.  But the main reason I hesitated was: this last film in the series marks the end of an era.  I'll probably be in my 80's before the next Epic Hero arises.

Hero for a Friday

I'm looking forward to some pure escapism this weekend!

I just caught the matinee of "Thor".  I think i'ts the best "comic book" genre movie so far.  It has everything: 
*Gorgeous scenery + great special effects
*Heroes, Gods, + Monsters, 
*True Love, Humor, Treachery, Valiance, Friendship, Self-sacrifice, *and it ends with Hope.
AND
Sir Anthony Hopkins plays Odin!


what more do you want?


 

CharlesChaplin, Chocolate Chips, Quiche + Kells

The opening scene from "Benny and Joon"  is a picture of what living the creative life is like.

so ...what're you listening to this weekend?

I've been researching medieval music. Love this group!

Mountain goats in the middle of the city. (!)

Unbelievable!  I was shooting photos of desert vegetation when a passing jogger said
"Be sure to get that old ram up there. See him?"
I thought I'd misheard, but -Golly!- There he was!

I saw a Pirate Ship last night

It sailed by at breakfast.  Then, with golden fairy lights and a canon booming, it sailed by again at dinner; just past sunset.
Yes, I know it's a floating dinner theater.
 But when magic happens, we don't ask too many questions;
we just enjoy it.

Night Blooming Cereus: 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Mrs Piggle Wiggle, Willy Wonka, and Me

It is a "Playroom Day" today.
Meaning I have to clean my house like I used to clean the playroom, and I don't want to, much.

I think if Saint Paul had read "Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Won't Put Up The Toys Cure", 1 Corinthians 13 might not have been written.  He would have rephrased that whole bit about "put away childish things".   Actually, if we took her cures to heart, we'd probably  be totally free from all kinds of besetting sins.

Which brings me to the matter of living like Willy Wonka in his very wonderful chocolate factory.